Mitt Romney Cancels Campaign Credit Cards Leaving Staff Broke

Mitt Romney was reluctant to concede during last week’s election. But he didn’t waste any time canceling campaign funds.

Sources report that Romney canceled campaign credit cards which have left many of his staffers stranded.

The campaign’s finances dwindled shortly after the Republican candidate finished his concession speech.

Many of Romney’s aides said they found out the credit cards no longer worked after taking cabs home Tuesday night.

However, the funds still exist. The campaign is allowed to sustain the money for up to two years in order to pay election expenses as long as they are properly filed with the Federal Election Commission.

While many of his staffers are left disappointed, other aides believe Romney’s actions are simply “fiscally conservative.”

OTHER NEWS: Facebook Friends Unfriend Romney at Rapid Rate

How do you spell electoral defeat in the digital age? If you’re Mitt Romney, you take a look at your Facebook page, which has been losing friends at a rapid rate since the Romney’s resounding defeat on Tuesday.

Romney has been losing friends at a rate of about 600 an hour at certain points over the last four days, according to a story in the Washington Post. The Post says you can refresh his page and watch the friends drop by the second.

The Post speculates that the rampant defriending is a sign of something that political observers were saying all summer long: that Romney’s support amongst Republicans was not very enthusiastic—his support was primarily based on a dislike of President Obama.

While 2008 candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin have managed to maintain a substantial presence on Facebook—particularly Palin, who has become something of a media celebrity—Romney is not expected to remain a public figure, according to media speculation. Perhaps Romney was acknowledging as much in the statement that was posted on his Facebook page on Saturday afternoon—the first item put on the page since he encouraged his followers to vote on Election Day.

“From the bottom of our hearts, Ann and I thank you for your support, prayers, efforts, and vote. We are forever grateful to every one of you,” Romney wrote on the page.

That sounds like a somewhat permanent farewell.

One thing is certain, watching Romney’s discomfort at times in the public eye, is that he won’t go the way of Palin and become a media and reality TV star. Palin was right there on Fox News at the end, expressing her dismay with the outcome.

“The realization at this point is that those Bain Capital ads that voters just got inundated with early on in Ohio, and some of these other areas as it pertained to the auto bailout, I think really hurt Romney,” she said.

“This really is a catastrophic setback to our economy. And to any opportunity that we would have for Supreme Court justices to be appointed who strictly adhere to the Constitution.”

“It’s a perplexing time for many of us right now,” she noted, “if things continue in this trend that we have seen earlier tonight.”

We are an organisation of people dedicated to the propagation and the dissemination of news and information relating to, and of importance to African Peoples worldwide. Our main objective is to provide an online portal where people of African decent; African heritage and friends of Africa can liaise and exchange knowledge and information.